The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily revived a congressional map in Louisiana that includes a second majority-Black district, halting a lower court decision to pause the map over concerns that it was racially gerrymandered.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a public dissent, acknowledging the complex history of the dispute, which has taken more than two years of litigation, challenges by separate groups of voters, first under the Voting Rights Act, then under the Constitution, and scrutiny by governors, legislators, voters, and judges.
The case was particularly thorny because two groups had raised separate challenges to the way that Louisiana carved up its voting districts, basing their objections on different underlying principles.
In Louisiana's petition, Elizabeth B. Murrill, the state's attorney general, urged the justices to act quickly. The Louisiana secretary of state had set a deadline of May 15 to prepare for the 2024 elections, she wrote, adding that the lower court ruling had left the state with no congressional map.
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